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Finding Purpose in Suffering - Walking Through a Child's Cancer Diagnosis and Remission:: Brooke Preus :: [Episode291]

StoryTellers Live

StoryTellers Live

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9611 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Brooke Preus' life was on a peaceful path for years—and then it veered. Pain and suffering settled upon her family's world with diagnosis on top of diagnosis.

 

In her story, Brooke, from our Fairhope community, will candidly talk you through her son's blood disorder and cancer journey—but what you'll really get is a rich education on how to suffer well as a follower of Christ.

 

Through her study of lamentations, deep prayer, and even worshiping in a storage closet for six months, Brooke learned the pathway from heartbreak to hope. She will encourage you to look outward in your own suffering, and to align your heart and will to the Lord's.

 

In this episode, you will learn:

 

—The Lord longs to enter into the misery and suffering you're experiencing.

 

—Share the hope you have in Him even as you suffer—He will put other suffering people in your path.

 

—When you endure pain with faith in focus, a new purpose is found.

 

Links:

 

Listen to a similar story on surviving cancer~ Leslie Presson- Ep. 223: "Hope Blooms"

 

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Become a Patreon Insider to access bonus content~ including a "Where Are They Now?" episode with Leslie Presson also from Fairhope!

 

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But I will tell you, when you're at the end of yourself and feeling utterly alone,

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because you're trying to be all the things for everybody and keep everyone's spirits up and never let anybody truly dive into what you're going through,

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you get so desperate for God and the nearness of God that

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you'll do anything. Welcome to the Storytellers Live podcast where everyday women are sharing

0:30.1

stories of hope found in Jesus. I'm Katie Dunn. I'm Robin Cowan. And I'm Lindy Walker,

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and we are your podcast host, as well as part of the Storytellers Live

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ministry where simple life stories are helping women all over the country not only increase their

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faith in Christ, find freedom in Christ, but also build community among women. And we do that through

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live gatherings that we have across the country that meet in homes.

0:54.9

Welcome to this week's podcast where we have Brooke Prius from Fairhope.

0:59.6

But before we get into Brooke's story, some of you all may be new around here,

1:03.4

or you just may not know all the things that we offer at storytellers.

1:07.3

And right now, I would love to tell you a little bit about it.

1:12.5

First of all, something new to everybody is that we have created Spotify playlists around different topics. And so we have almost

1:18.8

300 stories here. And now they are divided into anxiety and depression or sickness or parenting or

1:26.2

like whatever you find yourself needing to be encouraged by.

1:30.4

On Spotify, we have different playlist. And often those are linked in the show notes.

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And again, if you do not know what show notes are, you just scroll up in the podcast, what you're

1:40.4

listening to. If you're listening on Apple, you scroll up. If you are on Spotify,

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it's right there. And we not only will have links to playlist, but even just older stories

1:48.8

that have to do with this same topic of the storyteller. And not only do we have playlist and links

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to older stories, but if you are somebody that wants to dig deeper into stories, we have

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